Scramjet Success in Australia

glengyron writes "Australia's ABC reports today that a University of Queensland team have successfully tested a supersonic scramjet (air-breathing supersonic combustion ramjet engine). Read more here or here. Great to see after previous problems. Does the future of air travel still include those breakfast egg-roll things?"

Comments

First post.

[Hash Browns]

Umm, yeah. First post... I'm a whore.

Re: Russians?

[Baldrson]

Undoubtedly what actually happened was that DoD/NASA secretly tested a scramjet already and are not releasing their success due to the need for National Security. We can be sure this happened during the "Orient Express" project announced by Reagan during his 1986 State of the Union Address after the Challenger blew up, because the Challenger 7 shall not have died in vain. The joint flight experiment with the Russians was therefore a cover for a covert op to ensure Russia did not acquire a working scramjet due to the danger of Russian technology ending up being used in the United States and its allies by terrorists.

Let's be reasonable here:

The Australian team being a small crew of academics and amateurs from a former prison colony obviously could not have developed anything so sophisticated as a scramjet and must therefore have stolen the secrets from the United States Government. This is prima facia evidence they are potential allies of Al Queda terrorists and should be monitored for any suspicious activity; after, of course, their facility has been put under 24 hour guard and surveillance by Homeland Defense.